Events

On December 1st, 2016 the General Assembly of the Polish Academy Sciences (PAS) elected new members. In Division II (Biological and Agricultural Sciences) prof. Małgorzata Kossut, head of the Laboratory of Neuroplasticity was elected a full member, while Prof. Bożena Kamińska-Kaczmarek, head of the Laboratory of Molecular Neurobiology, Nencki Institute Neurobiology Centre was elected a corresponding member.

The PAS Student Government Council in cooperation with the National Representation of the PhD students announced the results of another edition of the competition for the most prodoctoral college and Institute of the Polish Academy of Sciences ProPAN2016.

The National Science Centre has published ranking lists of projects which have qualified for financial backing within the limits of the competitions announced by the NSC on 15th March, 2016. Scientists from the Nencki Institute received financial backing for the 12 research projects they worked on in OPUS11, PRELUDIUM11 and SONATA11 competitions.

On October 26th 2016, Andrzej Duda, the president of Republic of Poland, handed professorial nominations to academic teachers and workers of science and arts. Among the nominees, there was prof. Grzegorz Wilczyński, the head of the Laboratory of Molecular and Systemic Neuromorphology.

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On December 6th, 2016, in the conference hall of the Nencki Institute Neurobiology Centre another meeting in the framework of the initiative "Ochota na Naukę" took place, adressed mostly to university students and secondary school students.

On December 3th, 2016 XV Scientific Meeting for Biology Teachers was organized by the Nencki Institute and the Centre for Innovative Bioscience Education. More than 50 people took part in the event from all over Poland.

On Saturday 19th November 2016 Nencki Institute hosted a scientific session „Ethology: an interesting, increasingly interesting science” organized to celebrate the jubilee of 50 years of the Ethological Seminars in the Nencki Institute (1966-2016) [as a part of the celebration of 100 years of the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology (1918-2018)] and 25 years of the Polish Ethological Society (1991-2016).

On November 29th a conference MITOCHONDRION 2016 will be held at the Nencki Institute. The conference program will include the scientific presentations of the metabolism of the cells bioenergy which will be delivered by the representatives of various scientific centers of Poland. The highlight of the conference will be a solemn session on the beautiful 90th anniversary of Professor Lech Wojtczak's birthday.